[meteorite-list] Tweetup At NASA's JPL Previews Missions To Mars, Jupiter And More

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:50:54 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201104221650.p3MGosFr023640_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

April 21, 2011

Stephanie L. Schierholz
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-4997
stephanie.schierholz at nasa.gov

Veronica McGregor
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-354-9452
veronica.c.mcgregor at jpl.nasa.gov


RELEASE: 11-122

TWEETUP AT NASA'S JPL PREVIEWS MISSIONS TO MARS, JUPITER AND MORE

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in
Pasadena, Calif., will host a Tweetup for approximately 120 Twitter
followers on Monday, June 6.

With four space missions launching this year and an asteroid belt
encounter nearly underway, 2011 will be one of the busiest ever in
planetary exploration. Tweetup participants will interact with JPL
scientists and engineers about these upcoming missions: Aquarius, to
study ocean salinity; Grail, to study the moon's gravity field; Juno
to Jupiter; and the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity rover.
Participants also will learn about the Dawn mission and its upcoming
encounter with the asteroid Vesta.

The Tweetup will include a tour of JPL, robotics demonstrations and a
last chance to see the Curiosity rover before it ships to Florida to
prepare for a November launch. Tour stops will include the Spacecraft
Assembly Facility where Curiosity is under construction, the mission
control center of NASA's Deep Space Network, and JPL's new Earth
Science Visitor Center.

Tweetup participants also will mingle with fellow attendees and the
staff behind the tweets on _at_NASA, @NASAJPL, @MarsRovers,
_at_AsteroidWatch and more.

Registration for the event opens at noon PDT on Tuesday, April 26, and
it closes at noon on Wednesday, April 27. For more information about
the Tweetup and to sign up, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/tweetup

NASA Television will broadcast portions of the Tweetup on June 6 at:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-hd-tv

and

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

Find all the ways to connect and collaborate with NASA at:

http://www.nasa.gov/connect

For more information about JPL, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl
        
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Received on Fri 22 Apr 2011 12:50:54 PM PDT